by Jenny Edgar | Oct 8, 2025 | Speech Sounds
What Is Childhood Apraxia of Speech? Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) is a rare motor speech disorder where children know what they want to say but have difficulty planning and coordinating the precise mouth movements needed for speech. The brain struggles to send...
by Jenny Edgar | Oct 8, 2025 | Dyslexia
What Are Blending Skills? Blending is one of the most important early literacy skills for children learning to read. It means combining individual speech sounds (phonemes) to form whole words. For example, recognising that /c/ – /a/ – /t/ blends into “cat.” This skill...
